"I believe that inside every tool is a hammer."

"I would have to say that looked like it hurt."

"I think at this point, there's a certain bizarre chemistry between Jamie [Hyneman] and I that we can't ignore a lot of the mechanics of, that we're quite aware of. Half of it is absolutely genuine, and half of it is us playing around with that fact."

"I'm not a sculptor; I'm a hard-edged model maker. You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from 'Star Wars' - especially parts from 'Star Wars' - I can do this stuff all day long. It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years."

"That's our job - to strap rockets onto everything."

"Stand back! I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!"

"From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story."

"I've learned over decades of building that a deadline is a potent tool for problem-solving."

"We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos."

"Am I about to feel really, really stupid?"

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!"

"There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props."

"The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!"

"I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole."

"I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences."

"Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash."

"Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box."

"I find that your basic Internet chat board is way too vitriolic for my taste."

"I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that."

"In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test."

"I like to work fast. I despise not having the right tool or, worse, knowing I have it but not being able to find it. It's a pointless delay that wrecks my pace - and mood."

"It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way."

"The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself."